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Week 31 -- The Voice of Mason County since 1886 -- Published for Mason County and Janet Mellor of Hoodsport $1
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Amber Alert was issued early Wednesday
STAFF REPORT
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A search for a missing girl in
the Dayton area was called off
Wednesday afternoon after she
was reportedly found safe in
Olympia, according to reports.
Authorities issued an Amber
Alert after 16-year-old Viviana
Gaspar Guerrero was reported
missing at 7:30 a.m. Wednes-
day morning.
No other details were imme-
diately available at press time.
it was unclear how she got to
Olympia.
Deputies arrived at her
home nine miles west of Shel-
ton in the Dayton area. to find
her bedroom window open and
the screen cut.
Guerrero's bedroom was
in disarray, indicating that a
struggle had taken place, Byrd
said.
Authorities were searching
for signs of Guerrero's wher-
abouts Wednesday afternoon.
See Found on page A-5
Viviana
Gaspar
Guerrero
Suspect in
Burger King
stabbing
pleads not
guilty
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natal ie@masoncounty.com
Jacob Lee Curtis, 18, a
man accused of stabbing a
woman outside of the Shel-
ton Burger King on July 20,
entered a not guilty plea on
Monday in Mason County
Superior Court.
The Mason County Pros-
ecutor's office has charged
Curtis with attempted mur-
der in the first degree, as-
sault in the first degree and
robbery in the first degree
all with a deadly weapons
enhancement, Prosecutor
Mike Dorcy said.
Curtis' attorney, James
Gazori. said his client un-
derstands the nature of
the charges leveled against
him. He requested a speedy
trial.
Curtis is being held with-
out bail.
Curtis also pleaded not
guilty to two unrelated
charges. On June 21, the
Mason County Prosecutors
Office charged Curtis with
one count of forgery and
one count of possession of
stolen property and set bail
at $5,000.
At 2:30 a.m. on July 20
Shelton police officers re-
sponded to reports of a rob-
bery at the East Wallace
Kneeland Boulevard Burg-
er King to find an employee
of the restaurant had been
stabbed.
Authorities say the em-
ployee. Elaine Keck, was
attacked outside the res-
taurant as she left work for
the night.
According to the Shel-
ton Police Department,
Curtis approached her and
stabbed her with a weapon
he brought to the scene,
and then stole her vehicle.
He was apprehended after
crashing the vehicle into
a pole near the intersec-
tion of Alder and Seventh
streets.
There is no indication
that the suspect and victim
knew each other, or that
drugs were involved, au-
thorities said.
Keck was stabbed sev-
eral times, sustaining life-
threatening injuries. She
was transported to Mason
General Hospital, and then
transferred ~o Providence
St. Peter Hospital in Olym-
pia. She has since been re-
leased from the hospital
and is recovering.
Curtis' next court ap-
pearance is scheduled for
Aug. 13. His pretrial hear-
ing is set for Sept. 10, and
his trial is scheduled to
start between Sept. 18 and
Sept. 28.
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Lindsay Curneen, 12, shows off her alpaca, R2, at the Mason Area Fair last Friday.
MasOn 'Area Fair sees record turnout
By NATALIE JOHNSON
nahzIie@masoncou.~ty.com
Last weekend the Mason
Area Fair took over the Port
of Shelton's Sanderson Field
Events Center and Fair-
grounds, drawing thousands
of people for its best turnout
in years.
Rachel Hansen of Northwest
Event Organizers, which runs
the fair along with the Mason
Area Fair Association, said
the event was "wonderful."
"Attendance was way up. The vendors
were really happy - they did really well. The
carnival people did really well," she said.
The food vendors made a combined to-
tal of $65,000 during the three-day event.
Hansen said this as a good indication of
the number of people who attended the
fair.
"That's a lot of corndogs," she said.
See Fair on page A-7
Pascal Evans, 9, plays in the
Mason Area Fair's carnival. This
year the fair had a small carnival
with bouncy houses, slides and
this human slingshot.
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Ips
am
Squaxin Island
Tribe welcomes
103 canoes
By NATALIE JOHNSON
° nata/ie@masoncounty.eom
Some have traveled for
weeks, some for only a few
days.
No matter the length of
their journey, participants
in the 2012 Paddle to Squax-
in describe the annual canoe
journey as a spiritual expe-
rience.
For a canoe family made
up of Tsartlip tribal mem-
bers, a tribe based in Vic-
toria, B.C., the experience
was about remembering
and healing from the loss of
a beloved family member.
Flo Tom led the group.
which paddled in honor
of her grandson, Webster
Thompson. who recently
died.
"It starts out really hard,
but it gets easier," Flo Tom
said of the canoe trip from
Canada to Olympia.
The entire group wore
Vancouver B.C. Canucks
jerseys, Thompson's favor-
ite team.
Flo Tom's son Louie Tom
spoke of an expermnce that
touched the canoe family
early in their journey.
"Our canoe noticed an
eagle swooping down to the
water," he said.
The eagle circled the boat
four times and flew off, he
said.
"It was one of the most
amazing things I've ever
seen on a journey," he said.
"We took it in as a blessing."
Event emcee and Squax-
in Tribal member Ray Krise
spoke of the healing effect of
the protocols.
"There's such a strength
o£prayer here," he said. "We
have elders in walkers and
wheelchairs and pretty soon
you see them dancing."
The event includes a
healing tent with prayer
circles and massages.
On Sunday, the Squax-
in Island Tribe welcomed
ashore 103 canoes at the
Port of Olympia. At the first
canoe journey in 1989, five
canoes participated, Krise
said.
"The beautiful sight of all
those canoes coming in as a
flotilla -- it was life chang-
ing," lab said.
Krise said the journey
takes on a different mean-
ing for everyone who par-
ticipates.
"A lot of people come for
canoe journeys for a lot of
things. They want to heal
See Canoe on page A-8